Mortal bone

The place where Dugu Qingxiao and Xu Taiping hid was an abandoned temple.

Because the monastery is buried deep under the snow, and there are often a large number of wild animals around, so they have not been found by the monks who came to search.

"pat, pat..."

At this time Xu Taiping and Dugu Qingxiao were walking in a dilapidated corridor.

"So, since Second Senior Brother, you and Senior Sister Ziyan got the order to leave the dragon, you have fallen into their trap?"

After listening to the second senior brother Qing Xiao's narration, Xu Taiping couldn't help frowning.

He just felt that he still underestimated the conspiracy and calculations of the practice world.

It turned out that as early as many years ago, when the second senior brother and senior sister Ziyan started looking for the order to take away Jiao, the group of people who secretly planned today's events had already set their eyes on them.

"We can get the order to go away. Even if they are not directly related to them, they must be behind the scenes."

Qing Xiao nodded.

"And it's not just about walking the order, Zi Yan and I practiced the exercises, and we have a few magic weapons, and they all understand it clearly."

"So when we stepped into the Thousand Buddhas Kingdom, we became puppets under their control until we opened the box and awakened the Bodhi Seed."

Dugu Qingxiao's face was a little gloomy when he said this.

After a pause, he continued:

"The only thing they didn't expect is that the pair of bracelets you and Buyu gave us have the ability to eavesdrop on other people's voices."

"Without the pair of bracelets, we wouldn't even know we had been planted with bodhi fruit, and we wouldn't be able to escape when they were picking the fruit."

Hearing this, Xu Taiping was silent for a moment, and then asked:

"Brother, you said in the blood book that you can only live if Senior Sister Ziyan dies. What do you mean?"

Hearing this, Qing Xiao stopped in her tracks, as if she didn't really want to recall this past.

After a long time, he continued walking and said:

"Although we discovered their plan, we were still defeated when we escaped, so they dug up Ziyan's bodhi fruit in front of me."

"However, in order to catch me without a fight, they used evil methods to trap Zi Yan's soul in her body, and then sealed her body inside with a magic weapon refined from ice soul stones, so that Zi Yan could not live or die."

"Later, I used the method of folding swords, at the cost of breaking my own flying sword, to forcibly raise my realm to the realm of refining gods. Only then did I snatch Zi Yan from them, and then fled to Tianyin Temple. Into that wormhole."

"At that time, the only way I could save Zi Yan was to let Zi Yan eat the Bodhi fruit on my body when the Bodhi fruit was ripe."

"That's why it said that in the blood book."

When he said this, Dugu Qingxiao stopped with a wry smile.

Xu Taiping glanced at Qing Xiao's empty sleeve and the unhealed scar on his face, and couldn't help but recall the scene he saw in the Moon Shadow Stone.

That's why the second senior brother showed such a desperate expression after going through all this.

He sighed in his heart.

At the same time, a nameless anger welled up in his heart.

"But now it seems that my escape from this step may also be planned by those people."

Dugu Qingxiao pushed open a door in front of him and entered the backyard.

"Brother, do you want to say that they let you go on purpose?"

Xu Taiping asked with some puzzlement.

"Yes."

Qing Xiao nodded.

"But why would they do that?"

Xu Taiping asked.

"Because they not only want me to die, but also want me to die in disgrace, and want to use my death to shake the heart of my uncle."

Dugu Qingxiao said with cold eyes.

Hearing this, Xu Taiping's scalp tightened, and he hurriedly asked:

"How could Master Uncle be involved in this matter?"

"Because the person who planned all this is Su Chan, who knows now."

Dugu Qingxiao hesitated for a while, but finally decided to tell Xu Taiping the truth.

Xu Taiping was shocked when he heard this.

He stopped in his tracks, and asked Dugu Qingxiao with an expression of disbelief:

"Why did these two people come together?"

"Because the forces behind them have a common enemy."

"Who?"

"Uncle Master, Uncle Ninth."

Qing Xiao replied.

"After Su Chan became a demon, he turned against Uncle Jiu. I can understand, but why do you hate Uncle Jiu now?"

Xu Taiping asked with some puzzlement.

In his opinion, if there is no Su Chan in this matter, then why would it be impossible to be the opponent of the second senior brother today.

"How do you know that you don't hate Uncle Jiu now? He hates Master and I so much, and the one who hates Uncle Jiu is the first peak master behind him and the leader Zhou Tong."

Dugu Qingxiao sighed, and then continued to explain:

"Uncle Jiu has always been aware of what the head does, but he can't do anything due to his oath to the sect."

"But there is a rule of Qingxuanzong, that is, after a peak wins the competition among the seven peaks, the disciples of this peak can ask the master for swords."

"Once the master loses in the sword questioning, he will have to step back from his position as the master, and the Qingxuanzong Seven Peaks Restriction will not be able to be used by him."

"So all these years, Uncle Jiu has been looking for a disciple who can ask the master Zhou Tong the sword."

"Peak Master Shen of the five peaks was actually one of the candidates, but now that Master Shen's beloved disciple has been abolished and driven down the mountain, he has become disheartened and does not want to interfere in the affairs of the sect."

"Three years ago, Uncle Jiu found me and chose me as a sword-seeking disciple."

Hearing this, Xu Taiping has almost figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

"So in order to get rid of you, the sword-questioning disciple, the head secretly colluded with Su Chan and set up this trap for senior brother in this Thousand Buddha Kingdom, right?"

Xu Taiping confirmed to Dugu Qingxiao.

"exactly."

Dugu Qingxiao nodded.

"Then what is Su Chan's motive? Just because he hates Uncle Jiu?"

Xu Taiping didn't think that Su Chan targeted Uncle Jiu just because of hatred.

"From what I heard from my heart, Su Chan has actually been forcing Uncle Jiu to take action all these years. For example, in the two times in Yunmengze Ruins and Xianhu Cave, he was behind him. It's also for Uncle Jiu to take action."

"As for why he did this, I don't know."

Dugu Qingxiao explained to Xu Taiping.